20" Tall Clock With Cockerellites Fish Fossil - Wyoming

This is a really cool clock made out of a slab of shale containing a 5.5" long Cockerellites (Priscacara) liops fossil fish. The fish in their natural position in an unbroken slab of shale which has been shaped, backed with wood for hanging and had a working clock mechanism installed.

The fossils were quarried from the Eocene aged (45-50 milliion year old) Green River Formation near Kemmerer, Wyoming.